Who We AreLeadership & Organization Senior Leadership
Lurie Children's Senior Leadership
Thomas P. Shanley, MD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Derek Wheeler, MD
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Fatema Zanzi, Esq.
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative and Legal Officer
Kendra Allaband
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer
Mary Kate Daly
Senior Vice President and Chief of Community Health Partnerships and Transformation
Courtney Hardy, MD, MBA, FAAP
President, Lurie Children's Medical Group
Susan Hayes Gordon
Senior Vice President & Chief External Affairs Officer
Rich Lehmuth
Chief Strategy Officer
Marcelo Malakooti, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Kary McIlwain
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Alex P. Miller
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Max Siegel
Chief Compliance and Integrity Officer
Brian Stahulak, DNP
Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer & Chief Clinical Officer
Carrie Alden, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC/AC
Vice President & Chief, Ambulatory and Advanced Practice
Brenda Davis
Vice President, Budget & Planning
Ken Gray
Vice President, Medical Services
David Lewis
Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
Grant Stirling, PhD
President & Chief Development Officer
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation
Patrick Seed, MD, PhD
President & Chief Research Officer
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute
Brenda Paulsen, MEd, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute
David Kruger, RN, DNP
President & Executive Director
Almost Home Kids
Department Chairs
Olutoyin A. Olutoye, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatric Anesthesia
Estella Alonso
Interim Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Shannon Haymond, PhD
Senior Vice President and Chief, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Cynthia K. Rigsby, MD
Chair, Department of Medical Imaging
John T. Walkup, MD
Chair, Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health